District 11 Top Returning Players for the 2019 season week 13

Written by: EasternPAFootball.com Staff on Thursday, November 21st, 2019. Follow EasternPAFootball.com Staff on Twitter.

by Duke Helm

RUNNINGBACKS: 

Asher Smith of Southern Lehigh rushed for 256 yards and 4 td’s in their win over Oil City last week.  Smith broke the single-season rushing record at Southern Lehigh with his 2,457 yards this season.  Chris Smith held the old record when he rushed for 2,289 yards in 1996.  Asher has scored 44 td’s this year which moves him into a 6th place tie all-time in the District for a single-season.  Kobe Brish also scored 44 td’s as a sophomore in 2017.  Nate Boyle of Tamaqua rushed for 243 yards and 4 td’s in their win over Pope John Paul II.  Boyle broke both the single-season rushing yardage and td records at Tamaqua along with the career rushing yardage record last week.  Boyle’s rushing total for the season is now at 1,634 yards to go along with his 31 td’s scored this season.  Jim Hope held the school-record yardage record when he rushed for 1,509 yards in 1990.  Boyle held the td record when he scored 27 last year.  Nick Breiner just set the career rushing record last year at Tamaqua when he ended his career rushing for 3,798 yards.  Boyle now holds the record with his 3,826 yards.  He has 77 career touchdowns which place him 1 spot out of the top ten all-time in the District.  Boyle is tied with Evan Culver of Saucon Valley (2013-15) for 11th place.  Ironically he also lost a school-record this week when teammate Matt Kistler went ahead of him for career receptions 99 to 98.  Jayden Williams of Central Catholic finished his junior year rushing for 1,216 yards and 8 td’s.  Brady Miller ends his senior rushing for 1,426 yards and scoring 16 total td’s.  Miller’s career totals have him scoring 33 td’s and rushing for 3,263 yards.  His yardage is the 2nd highest in school history behind Dylan Rabuck’s 6,421 yards that he totaled from 2014-17.  Miller rushed for 131 yards vs Lackawanna Trail which moved him ahead of Cole Barnhardt who rushed for 3,146 yards from 2010-13.  Isiah Rico of Parkland rushed for 211 yards and a td vs Nazareth last week to finish his junior season rushing for 1,651 yards and scoring 18 td’s.  Rico will enter his senior year with 1,802 rushing yards and 21 td’s.

District 11 career rushing leaders (top 3):
1.  8,432 yards – James Mungro (ES South) 1993-96

2. 8,325 yards – Zach Barket (Schuylkill Haven) 2005-08
3. 7,645 yards – Kobe Brish (Schuylkill Haven) 2016-19

District 11 career td leaders (top 3):

1. 116 – Kobe Brish (Schuylkill Haven) 2016-19
2. 115 – James Mungro (ES South) 1993-96
3. 113 – Zach Barket (Schuylkill Haven) 2005-08)

QUARTERBACKS:

Anthony Harris of Nazareth threw for 196 yards in their win over Parkland.  Harris has thrown for 2,359 yards this year and 7,684 yards in his career.  Harris remains in 6th place all-time in the District for both career passing yardage and td passes.  Bryce Herb of Williams Valley threw for 214 yards in their loss to Lackawanna Trail last week.  Herb ends his junior year passing for a District leading 2,688 yards and 37 td passes.  Herb also went over 3,000 yards for his career and will enter his senior season with 3,005 passing yards and 42 td passes.  Damon Yost of Pottsville is now in 2nd in the District with 2,530 yards passing.  He’s also thrown 33 td passes.  Yost has every major single-season record at Pottsville but hasn’t been able to crack any of Tony Gomez’s career totals yet.  Brayden Knoblauch of Tamaqua has thrown for 1,773 yards and 17 td’s this season. His yardage is a school record and his 17 td passes are one shy of the school record that Nate Edmonds set when he threw 18 td passes as a junior in 2012.  Knoblauch broke his uncle Adam’s career passing yardage record and has thrown for 4,261 yards in his career so far.  Matt Rauscher of Central Catholic went over 2,000 yards passing for his career last week.  The junior has thrown for 2,038 yards so far in his career.  Ty Tremba of Parkland went over 1,000 yards passing for the season and the sophomore now has 1,102 yards.  Matt Rauscher of Central Catholic finished his junior year passing for 1,991 yards and 15 td passes.  He’ll enter his senior season with 2,222 career passing yards and 16 td passes.  Sophomore Ty Tremba of Parkland finished the season throwing for 1,137 yards and 9 td passes.  Tremba is only the 2nd sophomore Trojan to throw for 1,000 yards in a season.  Devante Cross was the first when he threw for 1,055 yards in 2013.

District 11 career passing td leaders (top 3):

1. 106 – Brendan Nosovitch (Central Catholic) 2008-11
2.   99 – Cole DeFranco (Notre Dame) 2016-18
3.   97 – Deven Bollinger (Northwestern) 2016-19

RECEIVERS:

Nathan Stefanik of Nazareth caught 8 more passes last week vs Parkland and now has 81 receptions this year and 194 for his career.  Stefanik moves ahead of former teammate Jahan Dotson and into 2nd place all-time in the District.  He leads the District with 1,101 receiving yards this season and moves up a notch into 7th place all-time in the District with his 2,625 yards.  He moves ahead of Kowan Scott of Wilson who had 2,602 yards from 2008-10.  Mason Barnes of Pottsville, Bo Raho of Williams Valley and teammate Jesse Engle are all tied for the District lead with 13 td catches each.  Barnes is still playing as is three other players that have 12 td catches this year.  They are Stefanik, Kevin Schenk of Pottsville and Jared Russell of Northampton.  Barnes caught 2 passes vs Central Catholic for 25 yards which is good enough to break the school’s single-season reception yardage record.  Barnes now has 829 yards, which is 8 yards better than Jim Murphy had in 1979.  The Williams Valley trio of Raho, Engle and Jayden Cruz caught 115 passes for 2,358 yards and 34 td’s this season.  Raho a senior, caught 41 passes for 794 yards and 12 td’s, Engle a junior, caught 40 passes for 803 yards and 13 td’s while Cruz a senior, caught 34 passes for 761 yards and 8 td’s.  Raho was able to garner enough yards last week to break the 1,000 career mark and ended his career with 1,011 yards on 60 catches and 15 td’s.  Cruz ended his career catching 69 passes for 1,370 yards and 16 td’s.  Engle a junior, will enter his senior season with totals of 54 catches for 1,196 yards and 21 td’s.  As stated earlier Matt Kistler of Tamaqua took over the career reception record from teammate Nate Boyle.  Kistler has 49 receptions on the year for school-records of 831 yards and 11 td catches.  His career totals (all school records) are currently at 99 catches for 1,669 yards and 24 td catches.  Boyle is currently at 98 catches for 1,480 yards and 9 td catches.  George Hlavac of Central Catholic finished the season catching 50 passes for 673 yards and 7 td grabs.  His final career totals have him with 109 catches for 1,335 yards and 11 td grabs.  Hlavac becomes the 5th Viking to have 100 career receptions.  Jeff McGeehin was the first when he caught 144 passes from 1971-73.  David Horton caught 123 passes from 2003-04.  Our District career leader Kevin Gulyas caught 247 from 2008-11 and Justin Pasquale caught 115 passes from 2016-18.   Teammate Jack McGorry caught 51 passes for 524 yards and 2 td’s and will return next season.  Nick Johnston of Parkland ended his senior year catching 40 passes for 714 yards and 6 td receptions.  He caught 60 passes in his career for 973 yards with 8 going for touchdowns.

District 11 career reception leaders (top 5):

1. 247 – Kevin Gulyas (Central Catholic) 2008-11
2. 194 – Nathan Stefanik (Nazareth) 2016-19
3. 187 – Jahan Dotson (Nazareth) 2014-15, 17
4. 183 – Matt Camilletti (Pius X) 2008-11
5. 181 – Dez Boykin (Whitehall) 2015-17

2019 single-game highs: ( ) is the week the player accomplished the stat

Single Game Touchdowns (4)

7 (8), 5 (9), 4 (5), 4 (6), 4 (7), 4 (11) Kobe Brish (Schuylkill Haven)  *Ties School Record*

6 (11), 4 (4) Nahjee Adams (Easton)

5 (1) Brandon Camire (Emmaus)

5 (2), 5 (6), 5 (10) Dimitri Rojas (Stroudsburg)

5 (10), 4 (1), 4 (2), 4 (4), 4 (6), 4 (12), 4 (13) Asher Smith (Southern Lehigh)

5 (10) Jacob Hoffman (Nativity)

5 (11), 4 (4), 4 (5), 4 (13) Nate Boyle (Tamaqua)

4 (1) Tavion Banks (Bethlehem Catholic)

4 (1) Brady Miller (Williams Valley)

4 (2), 4 (5), 4 (10) Tyrese Brandon (Northampton)

4 (4) CJ Selby (Jim Thorpe)

4 (4) Damian Garcia (Saucon Valley)

4 (4) Danny Lawrence (Mahanoy Area)

4 (5) Nick Henry (Northwestern)

4 (6) Zack Chowansky (North Schuylkill)

4 (6) Tim Buda (Salisbury)

4 (7) Andrew Darno (Notre Dame)

4 (7) Rhasaan Jacobs  (ES North)

4 (8) Andrew Sabo (Palmerton)

4 (8) Terrell Holder (8) PM East

4 (10) Matt Frauen (Notre Dame)

4 (10) Nathan Stefanik (Nazareth)

4 (11) Christian Arrington (ES South)

Single Game Rushing Yardage (200)

391 (11), 243 (13) Nate Boyle (Tamaqua)  *School Record*

323 (12), 313 (10), 280 (5), 256 (13), 216 (2) Asher Smith (Southern Lehigh)  *School Record*

302 (11), 225 (7) Chase Herb (Tri-Valley)  *School Record*

291 (6), 270 (9), 267 (8), 201 (10) Kobe Brish (Schuylkill Haven)

284 (2), 241 (4), 236 (1) Nahjee Adams (Easton)

284 (6) Zack Chowansky (North Schuylkill)

282 (2) Gavoni Hall (Allen)  *School Record*

269 (4) Danny Lawrence (Mahanoy Area)

264 (9), 257 (2), 224 (10) Dimitri Rojas (Stroudsburg)

250 (5), 210 (11) CJ Selby (Jim Thorpe)

249 (4) Damian Garcia (Saucon Valley)

243 (3), 207 (1) Brady Miller (Willams Valley)

235 (3) Danny Lawrence (Mahanoy Area)

230 (7) Colin Luckenbill (Pine Grove)

222 (1), 215 (9), 208 (3), 206 (2) Brandon Camire (Emmaus)

213 (1) Christian Arrington (ES South)

211 (13), 204 (1) Isiah Rico (Parkland)

207 (8) Mike Repsher (Northern Lehigh)

205 (5) Jacob Hoffman (Nativity)

202 (7) Rhasaan Jacobs (ES North)

Single Game Passing Yardage (200). 

492 (5), 317 (10), 303 (6), 297 (3), 204 (9) Scott Schwalm (Minersville). *District Record*

426 (8), 273 (9), 266 (12), 212 (4) Jared Jenkins (Freedom) *School Record*

337 (1), 216 (8) Brayden Knoblauch (Tamaqua) *School Record*

336 (5), 329 (7), 315 (10), 280 (6), 268 (8), 214 (13), 206 (12) Bryce Herb (Williams Valley) *School Record 

306 (8), 253 (6), 244 (11), 236 (9), 234 (3) Damon Yost (Pottsville)

302 (7) Cayden Stem (Wilson)

301 (7) Ty Tremba (Parkland)

290 (6), 266 (4), 256 (11), 244 (1), 216 (8) Deven Bollinger (Northwestern)

287 (7), 200 (10) Cody Miller (Nativity)

283 (1), 232 (11), 213 (2) Collin Quintano (Notre Dame)

282 (2), 269 (4), 206 (5) Quintin Stephens (Salisbury)

278 (11), 272 (10), 263 (8), 220 (5) Joe Kerbacher (Northampton)

256 (6), 211 (5) Quinn Wentling (Whitehall)

250 (2), 214 (7), 205 (9) Matt Rauscher (Central Catholic)

245 (6) Jonathan Marks (Allen)

241 (2), 202 (1) Anthony Nanoah (Whitehall)

237 (7), 207 (8) Andrew Darno (Notre Dame)

236 (8), 235 (4), 221 (11), 214 (12) Anthony Harris (Nazareth)

230 (5), 208 (1) Cole Transue (Easton)

227 (1) Will Fish (ES South)

220 (1) Lawson Bray (PM West)

218 (6) Rein Farensbach (Bangor)

218 (10) Jason Dean (Blue Mountain)

218 (10) Jared Richardson (Bethlehem Catholic)

212 (6) Dallas Holmes (Liberty)

206 (5) Joe Fullmer (ES South)

200 (2) Anthony Johnson (ES North)

Single Game TD Passes (4)

5 (1), 4 (9) Damon Yost (Pottsville)

5 (2), 5 (4), 4 (3), 4 (6) Deven Bollinger (Northwestern)  *Ties School Record*

5 (3), 5 (5) Scott Schwalm (Minersville)  *School Record*

5 (5), 4 (7), 4 (9) Bryce Herb (Williams Valley)  *Ties School Record*

5 (5) Joe Fullmer (ES South)

5 (8), 4 (5), 4 (6) Joe Kerbacher (Northampton)  *Ties School Record*

5 (9), 5 (11) Anthony Harris (Nazareth)  *Ties School Record*

4 (1) Jared Jenkins (Freedom)

4 (1) Collin Quintano (Notre Dame)

4 (10) Will Fish (ES South)

Single Game Receptions (10)

13 (5) Gabe Davis (Minersville)  *School Record*

11 (11) Nathan Stefanik (Nazareth)

10 (1) Andrew Darno (Notre Dame)  *Ties School Record*

10 (6) Allen Negrete (Whitehall)

10 (6) Derek Berlitz (Notre Dame)  *Ties School Record*

Single Game Reception Yardage (140)

261 (5) Gabe Davis (Minersville)  *School Record*

237 (7) Nick Johnston (Parkland)  *School Record*

217 (4), 194 (11) Justin Holmes (Northwestern)  *School Record*

208 (9) Mason Barnes (Pottsville)  *School Record*

203 (6) Jorge Torres (Allen)

200 (5) Jayden Cruz (Williams Valley)

192 (8), 146 (7) Bo Raho (Williams Valley)

180 (1) Matt Kistler (Tamaqua) *School Record*

176 (4), 169 (8) Zack Gillen (Wilson)

175 (2), 144 (5) Chad Parton (Salisbury)

175 (8), 147 (2) Gabe Caton (Freedom)

175 (11) Nathan Stefanik (Nazareth)

161 (6) Noah Snisky (Jim Thorpe)

157 (3) Nick Davanzo (Bangor)

152 (6) Nate Owens (Bangor)

151 (5) Tyrese Brandon (Northampton)

Single Game Reception TD’s (3)

4 (2) Justin Rodda (Northwestern) *Ties School Record*

3 (1) Matt Kistler (Tamaqua)  *Ties School Record*

3 (1) Vincent Reph (Freedom)

3 (3), 3 (5) Gabe Davis (Minersville)  *Ties School Record*

3 (4), 3 (11) Justin Holmes (Northwestern)

3 (8) Jared Russell (Northampton)  *Ties School Record*

3 (9) Mason Barnes (Pottsville)

3 (10) Christian Sapp (ES South)

3 (11) Nathan Stefanik (Nazareth)

District 11 Season Leaders

Rushing (1,000)

2457 Asher Smith (Southern Lehigh) sr

1793 Kobe Brish (Schuylkill Haven) sr

1707 Nahjee Adams (Easton) jr

1651 Isiah Rico (Parkland) jr

1634 Nate Boyle (Tamaqua) sr

1617 Brandon Camire (Emmaus) jr

1596 CJ Selby (Jim Thorpe) sr  *School Record*

1532 Danny Lawrence (Mahanoy Area) sr

1485 Zack Chowansky (North Schuylkill) sr

1461 Chase Herb (Tri-Valley) sr

1426 Brady Miller (Williams Valley) sr

1393 Tavion Banks (Bethlehem Catholic) sr

1366 Dimitri Rojas (Stroudsburg) jr

1316 Jalen Stewart (Freedom) sr

1316 Collin Luckenbill (Pine Grove) sr

1294 Jaden Leiby (North Schuylkill) sr

1229 Christian Arrington (ES South) jr

1216 Jayden Williams (Central Catholic) jr

1155 Matt Frauen (Notre Dame) jr

1142 Ali Barkley (Whitehall) sr

1087 Dalton Kintzel (Pine Grove) sr

1046 Damian Garcia (Saucon Valley) soph

1005 Deven Bollinger (Northwestern) sr

Touchdowns (20)

44 Asher Smith (Southern Lehigh) sr  *School Record*

34 Kobe Brish (Schuylkill Haven) sr

31 Nate Boyle (Tamaqua) sr

27 Brandon Camire (Emmaus) jr

25 Tyrese Brandon (Northampton) sr  *School Record*

24 Nahjee Adams (Easton) jr

22 Tavion Banks (Bethlehem Catholic) sr

22 Jalen Stewart (Freedom) sr

21 Nick Henry (Northwestern) jr

20 Danny Lawrence (Mahanoy Area) sr

20 Dimitri Rojas (Stroudsburg) jr

20 Christian Greggo (Notre Dame) sr

Passing Yards (1,000)

2688 Bryce Herb (Williams Valley) jr  *School Record*

2530 Damon Yost (Pottsville) sr  *School Record*

2471 Jared Jenkins (Freedom) sr

2359 Anthony Harris (Nazareth) sr

2249 Scott Schwalm (Minersville) sr  *School Record*

2105 Deven Bollinger (Northwestern) sr  *School Record*

1991 Matt Rauscher (Central Catholic) jr

1924 Joe Kerbacher (Northampton) jr

1879 Quintin Stephens (Salisbury) jr

1874 Cayden Stem (Wilson) soph

1773 Brayden Knoblauch (Tamaqua) sr   *School Record*

1735 Cole Transue (Easton) soph

1594 Lawson Bray (PM West) sr

1543 Jared Richardson (Bethlehem Catholic) soph

1538 Will Fish (ES South) jr

1440 Jason Dean (Blue Mountain) sr

1273 Cody Miller (Nativity) soph

1137 Ty Tremba (Parkland) soph

1034 Dallas Holmes (Liberty) sr

1005 Andrew Darno (Notre Dame)

Touchdown Passes (20)

37 Bryce Herb (Williams Valley) jr  *School Record*

35 Deven Bollinger (Northwestern) sr  *School Record*

33 Damon Yost (Pottsville) sr  *School Record*

26 Jared Jenkins (Freedom) sr

25 Joe Kerbacher (Northampton) jr  *School Record*

24 Anthony Harris (Nazareth) sr

22 Cayden Stem (Wilson) soph

21 Scott Schwalm (Minersville) sr  *School Record*

20 Will Fish (ES South) jr

Receptions (40)

81 Nate Stefanik (Nazareth) sr

65 Gabe Davis (Minersville) jr  *School Record*

57 Allen Negrete (Whitehall) sr

57 Chad Parton (Salisbury) jr

51 Jack McGorry (Central Catholic) jr

50 Chase Holmes (Easton) sr

50 George Hlavac (Central Catholic) sr

49 Matt Kistler (Tamaqua) sr

48 Derek Berlitz (Notre Dame) soph

48 Gabe Caton (Freedom) sr

47 Matt Stianche (Bethlehem Catholic) sr

47 Mason Barnes (Pottsville) sr

43 Zack Gillen (Wilson) soph

43 Christian Sapp (ES South) jr

42 Jared Russell (Northampton) sr

42 Jared Graeff (Minersville) soph

41 Bo Raho (Williams Valley) sr

40 Nick Johnston (Parkland) sr

40 Jesse Engle (Williams Valley) jr

Reception Yardage (600)

1101 Nathan Stefanik (Nazareth) sr

1041 Gabe Davis (Minersville) jr  *School Record*

984 Gabe Caton (Freedom) sr  *School Record*

872 Chad Parton (Salisbury) jr

831 Matt Kistler (Tamaqua) sr

829 Mason Barnes (Pottsville) sr

823 Zack Gillen (Wilson) soph

810 Justin Holmes (Northwestern) soph

803 Jesse Engle (Williams Valley) jr

795 Christian Sapp (ES South) jr

794 Bo Raho (Williams Valley) sr

783 Allen Negrete (Whitehall) sr

771 Chase Holmes (Easton) sr

764 Jared Russell (Northampton) sr

761 Jayden Cruz (Williams Valley) sr

746 Derek Berlitz (Notre Dame) soph

726 Kevin Schenk (Pottsville) sr

724 Tyrese Brandon (Northampton) sr

714 Nick Johnston (Parkland) sr

701 Matt Stianche (Bethlehem Catholic) sr

686 Keegan Brennan (Nativity) jr

673 George Hlavac (Central Catholic) sr

650 Jameel Sanders (Emmaus) jr

650 Vincent Reph (Freedom) sr

Reception Touchdowns (10)

13 Bo Raho (Williams Valley) sr

13 Jesse Engle (Williams Valley) jr

13 Mason Barnes (Pottsville) sr  *School Record*

12 Christian Sapp (ES South) jr

12 Christian Greggo (Notre Dame) sr

12 Jared Russell (Northampton) sr  *School Record*

12 Zack Gillen (Wilson) soph

12 Justin Holmes (Northwestern) soph

12 Nate Stefanik (Nazareth) sr

12 Kevin Schenk (Pottsville) sr

11 Matt Kistler (Tamaqua) sr

10 Gabe Davis (Minersville) jr  *School Record*

10 Tyrese Brandon (Northampton) sr

10 Chad Parton (Salisbury) jr

10 Vincent Reph (Freedom) sr

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